GRE Word List
COMPREHEND
to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of
The meaning of the word comprehend is to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| drudge | to do hard, menial, or monotonous work |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |