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 |
|---|---|
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |