GRE Word List
SOMATIC
of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm
The meaning of the word somatic is of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nourishment | food |