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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| aver | to declare positively |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |