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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |