GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| slew | a large number |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |