GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
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| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |