GRE Word List

LISTLESS

characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit

The meaning of the word listless is characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit.

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sheatheto put into or furnish with a sheath
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empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
vultureany of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion
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plumbera dealer or worker in lead
acridsharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating
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