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 |
|---|---|
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| brazen | made of brass |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |