GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
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| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |
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| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |