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 |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| rider | one that rides |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |