GRE Word List

GAUNT

excessively thin and angular

The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.

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enhanceheighten
etymologythe 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
plummetto fall perpendicularly
shedto rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted
fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
glamoran exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
siblingsib
supernumeraryexceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number
destitutelacking something needed or desirable
arrhythmiclacking rhythm or regularity