GRE Word List
DEFUNCT
no longer living, existing, or functioning
The meaning of the word defunct is no longer living, existing, or functioning.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |