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 |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| mischance | bad luck |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |