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
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| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| arid | excessively dry |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |