Monday, April 26, 2010

Improve your GRE Vocabulary:Act of cutting


Cutting is a part and parcel of our life. Everyday, we cut vegetables, fruits etc, obviously we don’t cut others head (decapitate), but a single word ‘cut’ can not represent all acts of cutting appropriately. So presenting you, different types/ styles of cutting today, which are better represented by these specialized GRE words.
  1. Abscission (n): removal by cutting of , as in surgery; separation
  2. Amputate (v): cut off part of body; prune
  3. Decapitate (v): be head
  4. Dissection (n): analysis; cutting part in order to examine
  5. Dismember (v): cut into small parts
  6. Excise (n): cut away; cut out
  7. Hack (v): to cut something or somebody with rough heavy blows
  8. Hew (v): cut into pieces with an ox or sword
  9. Incision (n): a surgical cut made in skin or flesh
                      : the action or process of cutting into something.
    Lancet (n): small surgical tools for making incisions
    Suture (n): stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing.
    Use: surgeons will remove the sutures as soon as the wound heals.
  10. Mince (v): to cut food, esp. meat, into very small pieces in a machine with revolving blades
                     : walk in affected manner with short, quick steps and swinging hips
  11. Prune (v): cut away; trim
  12. Truncate (v): to make something shorter by cutting off the top or end.
    Use: a truncated pyramid
          : they published my article in truncated form
  13. Whittle (v): pare; cut off bits

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