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 |
|---|---|
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| diva | prima donna |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| fete | festival |
| welter | writhe |
| gruel | a thin porridge |