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 |
|---|---|
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |