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 |
|---|---|
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |