GRE Word List
PROHIBITIVE
tending to prohibit or restrain
The meaning of the word prohibitive is tending to prohibit or restrain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |