GRE Word List
LONGEVITY
a long duration of individual life
The meaning of the word longevity is a long duration of individual life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| mortician | undertaker |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |