GRE Word List
PREY
an animal taken by a predator as food
The meaning of the word prey is an animal taken by a predator as food.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |