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 |
|---|---|
| irremediable | not remediable |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |