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.
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| 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 |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
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