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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| seemly | good-looking |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| hap | happening |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |