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.
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| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| condole | grieve |