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 |
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egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
pantomime | pantomimist |
enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
flighty | swift |