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 |
|---|---|
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |