GRE Word List
GENESIS
the origin or coming into being of something
The meaning of the word genesis is the origin or coming into being of something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |