GRE Word List
HERBIVOROUS
feeding on plants
The meaning of the word herbivorous is feeding on plants.
Random words
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| 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 |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| nomenclature | name |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |