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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intellectthe power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
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crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
condoneto regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless
forgea furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy
credoa guiding belief or principle : creed
disinclinationa preference for avoiding something : slight aversion
coymarked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness