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 |
|---|---|
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| fabricate | invent |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| score | twenty |
| calculated | apt |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |