GRE Word List
INCESSANT
continuing or following without interruption : unceasing
The meaning of the word incessant is continuing or following without interruption : unceasing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |