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 |
|---|---|
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |