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 |
|---|---|
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |