GRE Word List
PERPETUAL
continuing forever : everlasting
The meaning of the word perpetual is continuing forever : everlasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |