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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| writ | something written : writing |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |