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 |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| calculated | apt |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |