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 |
|---|---|
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |