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 |
|---|---|
| hardy | bold |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |