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 |
|---|---|
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |