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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| shack | hut |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |