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 |
|---|---|
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| lunar | crescent |
| recast | to cast again |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |