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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| quisling | traitor |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |