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 |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |