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 |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| appease | pacify |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |