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 |
|---|---|
| reek | smoke |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| append | attach |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |