GRE Word List
CARRION
dead and putrefying flesh
The meaning of the word carrion is dead and putrefying flesh.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| shambles | a meat market |
| boor | peasant |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| victuals | food usable by people |