GRE Word List
DECREPITUDE
the quality or state of being decrepit
The meaning of the word decrepitude is the quality or state of being decrepit.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the 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 |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |