GRE Word List
CRONE
a cruel or ugly old woman
The meaning of the word crone is a cruel or ugly old woman.
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| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
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| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |