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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| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| fell | skin |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |