GRE Word List
ATAVISM
recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination
The meaning of the word atavism is recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |