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 |
|---|---|
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |