GRE Word List
RECEPTIVE
able or inclined to receive
The meaning of the word receptive is able or inclined to receive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |