GRE Word List
PUTREFY
to make putrid
The meaning of the word putrefy is to make putrid.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| bitter | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale |
| congenial | pleasant |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| residual | remainder |