GRE Word List
AMPHIBIAN
an amphibious organism
The meaning of the word amphibian is an amphibious organism.
Random words
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| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |