GRE Word List
PROTRACT
to prolong in time or space : continue
The meaning of the word protract is to prolong in time or space : continue.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| historic | historical |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |