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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |