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 |
|---|---|
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| countenance | look |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |