GRE Word List
PRIM
to give a prim or demure expression to
The meaning of the word prim is to give a prim or demure expression to.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| apprehend | arrest |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |