GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| fester | to generate pus |
| stringent | tight |