GRE Word List
APPREHEND
arrest
The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |