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 |
|---|---|
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |