GRE Word List
TRANSITORY
of brief duration : temporary
The meaning of the word transitory is of brief duration : temporary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |