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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dismemberto cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of
gustoan individual or special taste
reprehensibleworthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable
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ineffableincapable of being expressed in words : indescribable
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purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
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alluvialrelating to, composed of, or found in alluvium
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