GRE Word List
PROLONG
to lengthen in time : continue
The meaning of the word prolong is to lengthen in time : continue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| throes | pang |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |