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 |
|---|---|
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| cryptic | secret |
| festive | of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |