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 |
|---|---|
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| osseous | bony |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |