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 |
|---|---|
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| invalid | not valid: |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |