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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |