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 |
|---|---|
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| calorific | caloric |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| fabricate | invent |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |