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 |
|---|---|
| wont | accustomed |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |