GRE Word List
HERBIVOROUS
feeding on plants
The meaning of the word herbivorous is feeding on plants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |