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 |
|---|---|
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| undulating | having a wavy surface, edge, or markings |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |