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 |
|---|---|
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| calculated | apt |