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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occludeto close up or block off : obstruct
analgesiainsensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
balefuldeadly or pernicious in influence
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
extrudeto force, press, or push out
jocularsaid or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful
scabbarda sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet
carriondead and putrefying flesh
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