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 |
|---|---|
| shambles | a meat market |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| unsavory | insipid |
| dally | to act playfully |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |