GRE Word List
TRANSITORY
of brief duration : temporary
The meaning of the word transitory is of brief duration : temporary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| impinge | encroach |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |