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 |
|---|---|
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| distend | extend |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |