GRE Word List
CLASP
a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together
The meaning of the word clasp is a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |