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.

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WordMeaning
ubiquitousexisting or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread
remunerativeserving to remunerate
mysticmystical
objectiveexpressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
apothegma short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism
exoticintroduced from another country : not native to the place where found
importto bring from a foreign or external source: such as
dazeto stupefy especially by a blow : stun
acmethe highest point or stage
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language