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 |
|---|---|
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| stench | stink |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |