GRE Word List
SEMINARY
an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated
The meaning of the word seminary is an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| natal | native |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |