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 |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| progeny | descendants |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| spate | freshet |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |