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
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| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| overwhelm | upset |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| concatenate | linked together |
| pundit | pandit |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |