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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|---|---|
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
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| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| evenhanded | fair |
| defalcate | deduct |
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| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |