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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| executioner | one who executes |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| impoverish | to make poor |