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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ignominydeep personal humiliation and disgrace
reprisala retaliatory act
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swarma great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere
egotisticalcharacterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance
disquisitiona formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse
circleta little circle
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
blotchto mark or mar with blotches
centripetalproceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis