GRE Word List
SCRUTINIZE
to examine closely and minutely
The meaning of the word scrutinize is to examine closely and minutely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |