GRE Word List
BOTCH
an inflammatory sore
The meaning of the word botch is an inflammatory sore.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| 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 |
| thespian | actor |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| spate | freshet |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |