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 |
|---|---|
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |