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
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |