GRE Word List
DEFUNCT
no longer living, existing, or functioning
The meaning of the word defunct is no longer living, existing, or functioning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| forlorn | bereft |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |