GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |