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 |
|---|---|
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |