GRE Word List
PROBE
a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity)
The meaning of the word probe is a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity).
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| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
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| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |