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 |
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| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |