GRE Word List
GENERIC
relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general
The meaning of the word generic is relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| opus | work |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| armada | a fleet of warships |