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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| warranted | sanction |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |