GRE Word List
GENUS
a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic
The meaning of the word genus is a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |