GRE Word List
PREHENSILE
adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around
The meaning of the word prehensile is adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gastronomy | the art or science of good eating |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |