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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |