GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| etymology | the 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 |