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 |
|---|---|
| inanimate | not animate: |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| inequity | injustice |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |