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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| conflagration | fire |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |