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 |
|---|---|
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| modish | fashionable |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |