GRE Word List
ADHERE
to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
The meaning of the word adhere is to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| avocation | a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby |
| scion | descendant |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
