GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |