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 |
|---|---|
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| unfrock | defrock |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |