GRE Word List
GERMINAL
being in the earliest stage of development
The meaning of the word germinal is being in the earliest stage of development.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| sleek | slick |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |