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 |
|---|---|
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |