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 |
|---|---|
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |