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 |
|---|---|
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| append | attach |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |