GRE Word List
SUSCEPTIBLE
capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation
The meaning of the word susceptible is capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| shambles | a meat market |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |