GRE Word List
LACERATION
the act of lacerating
The meaning of the word laceration is the act of lacerating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| boor | peasant |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| fester | to generate pus |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |