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 |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |