GRE Word List
PHYLUM
a direct line of descent within a group
The meaning of the word phylum is a direct line of descent within a group.
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| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| fiend | devil |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |