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 |
|---|---|
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |