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 |
|---|---|
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| gnarl | snarl |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |