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 |
|---|---|
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| ancillary | subordinate |