GRE Word List
PACHYDERM
any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin
The meaning of the word pachyderm is any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |