GRE Word List
PERFORATE
to make a hole through
The meaning of the word perforate is to make a hole through.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| poise | balance |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| pundit | pandit |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |