GRE Word List
CARNIVOROUS
subsisting or feeding on animal tissues
The meaning of the word carnivorous is subsisting or feeding on animal tissues.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravenous | rapacious |
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| prank | trick |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |