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 |
|---|---|
| faculty | ability |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| paltry | inferior |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |