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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |