GRE Word List
ATROPHY
decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue
The meaning of the word atrophy is decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| condign | deserved |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |