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 |
|---|---|
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| abnegation | denial |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |