GRE Word List
INHIBIT
to prohibit from doing something
The meaning of the word inhibit is to prohibit from doing something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |