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 |
|---|---|
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| demure | reserved |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |