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 |
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flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ยน/โโ part of pure gold in an alloy |
gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |