GRE Word List
APPREHEND
arrest
The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |