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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|---|---|
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |