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 |
|---|---|
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| conspire | plot |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| occident | west |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| haven | harbor |