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.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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minatory | having a menacing quality |
supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |