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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| overthrow | overturn |
| historic | historical |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| vendetta | blood feud |