GRE Word List
PROSTRATE
stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
The meaning of the word prostrate is stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| brawny | muscular |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |