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 |
|---|---|
| poise | balance |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| thespian | actor |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |