GRE Word List
AMPUTATE
to remove by or as if by cutting
The meaning of the word amputate is to remove by or as if by cutting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |