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 |
|---|---|
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |