GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |