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 |
|---|---|
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |