GRE Word List
PROTEAN
of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms
The meaning of the word protean is of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| trenchant | keen |
| brocade | a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
| dally | to act playfully |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |