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 |
|---|---|
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| determinate | having defined limits |