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 |
|---|---|
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| stout | strong of character: such as |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |