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 |
|---|---|
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |