GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grudging | unwilling |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |