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 |
|---|---|
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| witless | destitute of wit or understanding : foolish |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |