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

WordMeaning
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
intractablenot easily governed, managed, or directed
shimmerto shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer
capillaryresembling a hair especially in slender elongated form
wrytwist
perorationthe concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration
scrapsfragments of discarded or leftover food
beseechto beg for urgently or anxiously
rifeprevalent especially to an increasing degree
reiterateto state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect