GRE Word List
LANGUID
drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
The meaning of the word languid is drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
concur | to express agreement |
celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |