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 |
|---|---|
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| bulk | magnitude |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |