GRE Word List
PERVASIVE
existing in or spreading through every part of something
The meaning of the word pervasive is existing in or spreading through every part of something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slew | a large number |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |