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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retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
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collateralproperty (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender
coincorner
dissuadeto advise (a person) against something
filchto steal secretly or casually
reticentinclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved
gustatoryrelating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste
pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition