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 |
|---|---|
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |