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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vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
callous | being hardened and thickened |
fulcrum | prop |
detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |