GRE Word List
MAMMAL
any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
The meaning of the word mammal is any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| viable | capable of living |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |