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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| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
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| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| overweening | arrogant |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
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| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |