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 |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |