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 |
|---|---|
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| ebullient | boiling |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |