GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
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| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
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| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |