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.
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| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
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| 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 |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
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| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
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| prong | fork |