GRE Word List
GAUNT
excessively thin and angular
The meaning of the word gaunt is excessively thin and angular.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |