GRE Word List
ADAPT
to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification
The meaning of the word adapt is to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
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| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |