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 |
|---|---|
| hortatory | hortative |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| quisling | traitor |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |