pervasive
When something is pervasive, it's everywhere. Common things are pervasive — like greed and cheap perfume.
Ever notice how certain trends seem to spread all over the place? When something — like a hairstyle — is super-common, it's pervasive. Pervasive things can't be escaped. Playing video games is pervasive among kids. Talking about the weather is pervasive among adults. Ideas, diseases, habits, and all sorts of things can be pervasive. If you're sick of seeing something because you're seeing it again and again, it must be pervasive.
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spreading or spread throughout“the pervasive odor of garlic”“an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion”
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synonyms:
permeant, permeating, permeative
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distributive
serving to distribute or allot or disperse
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distributive
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Vocabulary lists containing pervasive
This list of intermediate words features a mixture of easier and more difficult words that you may be less familiar with. Study these words and watch your GRE score grow.
Sixteen-year old Sarah is thrown into an existential crisis as she struggles to regain her artistic abilities while struggling with her parents' toxic relationship in the urban ruins of Philadelphia.
Following the murder of her mother, sixteen-year old Tina is on a quest for revenge. She must survive Sangui City's dangerous streets while waiting for a chance to avenge her mother's death.
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