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 |
|---|---|
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| concordat | compact |