GRE Word List

PERPETUAL

continuing forever : everlasting

The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.

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WordMeaning
intriguethe practice of engaging in secret schemes
bacchanaliaa Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry
commodiouscomfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy
slothdisinclination to action or labor : indolence
acutecharacterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
adversitya state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune
jettisonto get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision
rationalean explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
adornto enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language