GRE Word List
DECAPITATE
to cut off the head of : behead
The meaning of the word decapitate is to cut off the head of : behead.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| irate | roused to ire |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |