GRE Word List
PERSEVERE
to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement
The meaning of the word persevere is to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |