GRE Word List
LATCH
to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms
The meaning of the word latch is to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| grotto | cave |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |