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 |
|---|---|
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| opus | work |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |