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 |
|---|---|
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| replicate | duplicate |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |