GRE Word List
ENRAPTURE
to fill with delight
The meaning of the word enrapture is to fill with delight.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |