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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advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
cue | the letter q |
pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
cringe | to recoil in distaste |