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 |
|---|---|
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| clown | farmer |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |