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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| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |