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 |
|---|---|
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| welter | writhe |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |