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 |
|---|---|
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| nourishment | food |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| connoisseur | expert |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| occident | west |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |