GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enhance | heighten |
| 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 |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| sibling | sib |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |