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 |
|---|---|
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| nomenclature | name |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |