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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| brawny | muscular |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |