GRE Word List
CONVERT
to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another
The meaning of the word convert is to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| ramification | branch |