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.
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| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| harass | exhaust |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
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