GRE Word List
SUSCEPTIBLE
impressionable; easily influenced; sensitive; having little resistance as to a disease; likely to suffer; receptive to; capable of accepting; Ex. susceptible to persuasion/colds; Ex. The agreement is not susceptible of alteration; N. susceptibility
The meaning of the word susceptible is impressionable; easily influenced; sensitive; having little resistance as to a disease; likely to suffer; receptive to; capable of accepting; Ex. susceptible to persuasion/colds; Ex. The agreement is not susceptible of alteration; N. susceptibility.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| high-flown | highly pretentious or inflated |
| ribald | marked by vulgar lewd humor; wanton; profane; N. ribaldry: ribald language or joke |
| nutrition | process of nourishing or being nourished; CF. malnutrition |
| commonplace | ordinary; N: something ordinary or common; trite remark |
| bilious | suffering from indigestion; sick from having too much bile; irritable; easily irritated |
| fell | cut or knock down (a tree or a person); bring down (with a missile) |
| exodus | departure (of a large number of people) |
| somber | dark; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; CF. shadow |
| deputize | work or appoint as a deputy; N. deputy: person who has the power to take charge when the leading person is away |
| insensible | unconscious; unresponsive; insensitive; unaware; imperceptible; Ex. insensible of his danger/to pain; Ex. insensible change; CF. not the opposite of sensible |
