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 |
|---|---|
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |