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 |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |