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 |
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ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
gnome | maxim |
odorous | having an odor: such as |
propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |