GRE Word List
SCRUTINIZE
to examine closely and minutely
The meaning of the word scrutinize is to examine closely and minutely.
Random words
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| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |