GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| entity | being |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |