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 |
|---|---|
| rarefied | being less dense |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |