GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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leery | suspicious |
apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |