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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |