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 |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |