GRE Word List
BROOD
the young of an animal or a family of young
The meaning of the word brood is the young of an animal or a family of young.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| drab | slattern |
| cataclysm | flood |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |