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 |
|---|---|
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
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| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
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| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |