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 |
|---|---|
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| paradigm | example |