GRE Word List
CHRONIC
continuing or occurring again and again for a long time
The meaning of the word chronic is continuing or occurring again and again for a long time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |