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 |
|---|---|
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| paradigm | example |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |