GRE Word List
LANGUISH
to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated
The meaning of the word languish is to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| sheer | unqualified |
| obscure | dark |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| trenchant | keen |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |