GRE Word List
APPREHEND
arrest
The meaning of the word apprehend is arrest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |