GRE Word List
MUTILATE
to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
The meaning of the word mutilate is to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| slake | subside |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |