GRE Word List
CARCINOGENIC
producing or tending to produce cancer
The meaning of the word carcinogenic is producing or tending to produce cancer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |