GRE Word List
PERSIST
to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning
The meaning of the word persist is to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| reek | smoke |