GRE Word List
STINT
a period of time spent at a particular activity
The meaning of the word stint is a period of time spent at a particular activity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| politic | political |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |