GRE Word List
THROTTLE
to compress the throat of : choke
The meaning of the word throttle is to compress the throat of : choke.
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|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| raspy | harsh |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
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| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
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