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 |
|---|---|
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |