GRE Word List
SANGUINARY
bloodthirsty
The meaning of the word sanguinary is bloodthirsty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| approbation | commendation |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |