GRE Word List
EMACIATED
very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness
The meaning of the word emaciated is very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blackball | to vote against |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |