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 |
|---|---|
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |