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 |
|---|---|
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |