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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |