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 |
|---|---|
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |