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 |
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| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |