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 |
|---|---|
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| haven | harbor |