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 |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| clime | climate |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |