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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| nexus | connection |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |