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 |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
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| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |