GRE Word List
MANGLE
to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing
The meaning of the word mangle is to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |