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 |
|---|---|
| dys- | abnormal |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| lewd | obscene |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| actuary | clerk |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |