GRE Word List
PERENNIAL
present at all seasons of the year
The meaning of the word perennial is present at all seasons of the year.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |