GRE Word List
CARCINOGENIC
producing or tending to produce cancer
The meaning of the word carcinogenic is producing or tending to produce cancer.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |