GRE Word List
HERBIVOROUS
feeding on plants
The meaning of the word herbivorous is feeding on plants.
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| innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| privy | private |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |