Wednesday, 17 October 2007

While writing an essay on evolutionary biology...

... I had to look up the following words:

basal--pertaining to, situated at, or forming the base
pectinate--
having narrow divisions like the teeth of a comb
concatenate--to link together in a series or chain
concomitant--accompanying in a subordinate or incidental way
stochastic--randomly determined
speciose--
consisting of a number of species; (or according to the OED: Beautiful, lovely)

Verbal GRE, here I come!!