GRE Word List
GERM
a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts
The meaning of the word germ is a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |