GRE Word List

APPREHEND

arrest

The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.

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mysticmystical
emanateto come out from a source
pigmenta substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials
prolificproducing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful
rebuttalthe act of rebutting especially in a legal suit
pulsethe regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart
brevityshortness of duration
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
tautologicalinvolving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant
vultureany of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion