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 |
|---|---|
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |