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 |
|---|---|
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |