GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
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| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
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| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| encompass | include |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
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| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |