GRE Word List
ADDICTION
compulsive habitual need
The meaning of the word addiction is compulsive habitual need.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambience | environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
| ascribe | refer; attribute; assign |
| sobriety | moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness |
| prehensile | capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails |
| assimilate | absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking) |
| rostrum | raised platform for speech-making; pulpit |
| hap | chance; luck |
| circumscribe | limit; confine; draw a line around |
| retroactive | taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future |
| unruly | disobedient; lawless; difficult to control |
