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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| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |