GRE Word List
OMNIVOROUS
feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
The meaning of the word omnivorous is feeding on both animal and vegetable substances.
Random words
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| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| dart | a light spear |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| condole | grieve |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |