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 |
|---|---|
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |