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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |