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 |
|---|---|
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
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| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |
| seemly | good-looking |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
