GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| dour | stern |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |