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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pervertto cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt
rotundmarked by roundness : rounded
gyroscopea 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
slaughterthe act of killing
favoritismthe showing of special favor : partiality
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
misconstrueto interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret
convolutedhaving convolutions
metropolisthe chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
consanguineousof the same blood or origin