GRE Word List
TRANSITORY
of brief duration : temporary
The meaning of the word transitory is of brief duration : temporary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| earthy | of, relating to, or consisting of earth |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| abominate | to hate or loathe intensely : abhor |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |