GRE Word List
NUTRIENT
furnishing nourishment
The meaning of the word nutrient is furnishing nourishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| precipitous | precipitate |