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 |
|---|---|
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| coin | corner |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |