GRE Word List
PERPETUATE
to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely
The meaning of the word perpetuate is to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely.
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ravenous | rapacious |
vertex | the top of the head |
hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
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encompass | include |
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