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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| quarry | game |
| demure | reserved |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| debonair | suave |