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 |
|---|---|
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |