GRE Word List
APPREHEND
arrest
The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.
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|---|---|
| coalesce | to grow together |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| tempo | the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |