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 |
|---|---|
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| dint | force |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |