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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |