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 |
|---|---|
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| modish | fashionable |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |