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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |