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 |
|---|---|
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |