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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| delude | to mislead the mind or judgment of : deceive |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |