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 |
|---|---|
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |