GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flounder | flatfish |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| intermediary | mediator |
| 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 |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| ensconce | shelter |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |