GRE Word List
MANGE
any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
The meaning of the word mange is any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange.
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|---|---|
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| engender | beget |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
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| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |