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 |
|---|---|
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |