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 |
|---|---|
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |