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 |
|---|---|
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |