GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
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dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
ossify | to change into bone |
placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
lax | loose |