GRE Word List
EMBRYONIC
of or relating to an embryo
The meaning of the word embryonic is of or relating to an embryo.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| colloquy | conversation |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| dally | to act playfully |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| exhume | disinter |