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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| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| appease | pacify |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |