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 |
|---|---|
| random | a haphazard course |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| oligarchy | government by the few |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |