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 |
|---|---|
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| pilfer | steal |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |