GRE Word List
VIVISECTION
the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation
The meaning of the word vivisection is the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation.
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| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |