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 |
|---|---|
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| dint | force |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |