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 |
|---|---|
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| blackball | to vote against |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |