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 |
|---|---|
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |