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 |
|---|---|
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |