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 |
|---|---|
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| dilute | attenuate |