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 |
|---|---|
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| trample | tramp |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| forlorn | bereft |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |