GRE Word List
HERBIVOROUS
feeding on plants
The meaning of the word herbivorous is feeding on plants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |