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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vagrantone who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
obtrudeto thrust out : extrude
downcastlow in spirit : dejected
seepto flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze
contritefeeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc.
materialisma 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
callousbeing hardened and thickened
fulcrumprop
detrimentalobviously harmful : damaging
pushyaggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward