GRE Word List
CAUTERIZE
to sear with a cautery or caustic
The meaning of the word cauterize is to sear with a cautery or caustic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acclaim | applaud |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| scourge | whip |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |