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 |
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| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| galaxy | milky way galaxy |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |