GRE Word List

APPREHEND

arrest

The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.

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WordMeaning
aversiona feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
authoritarianof, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
replenishto fill or build up again
culpablemeriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful
libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
potentialexisting in possibility : capable of development into actuality
ineluctablenot to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable
glamoran exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
shamblesa meat market