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 |
|---|---|
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |