GRE Word List
CANKER
an erosive or spreading sore
The meaning of the word canker is an erosive or spreading sore.
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| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| dilute | attenuate |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |