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 |
|---|---|
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| rank | relative standing or position |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |