GRE Word List
TOTEM
an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry
The meaning of the word totem is an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
