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 |
|---|---|
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |