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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| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| attentive | mindful |