GRE Word List
PRONE
having a tendency or inclination : being likely
The meaning of the word prone is having a tendency or inclination : being likely.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| sentinel | sentry |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| paradigm | example |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |