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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| alleviate | relieve |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |