GRE Word List
MORIBUND
being in the state of dying : approaching death
The meaning of the word moribund is being in the state of dying : approaching death.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| hue | overall character or appearance to the mind : complexion |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| contrive | devise |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |