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 |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| wry | twist |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |