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 |
|---|---|
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| encompass | include |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| comprehensive | covering completely or broadly : inclusive |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |