GRE Word List
DECREPIT
wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age
The meaning of the word decrepit is wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| forebears | ancestor |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| pundit | pandit |