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 |
|---|---|
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| sentinel | sentry |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |