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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| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| foppish | foolish |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |