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 |
|---|---|
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| shambles | a meat market |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| forlorn | bereft |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |