GRE Word List
PARASITE
an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host
The meaning of the word parasite is an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |