GRE Word List
LINGER
to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry
The meaning of the word linger is to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |