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 |
|---|---|
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| bulk | magnitude |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| unfrock | defrock |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |