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 |
|---|---|
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| concordat | compact |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| spare | not being used |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |