GRE Word List
APPREHENSIVE
viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future
The meaning of the word apprehensive is viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| flighty | swift |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| connoisseur | expert |