GRE Word List
ELASTIC
capable of recovering size and shape after deformation
The meaning of the word elastic is capable of recovering size and shape after deformation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clime | climate |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| scourge | whip |