GRE Word List
AMPHIBIAN
an amphibious organism
The meaning of the word amphibian is an amphibious organism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |