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 |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |