GRE Word List
PUNY
slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak
The meaning of the word puny is slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
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| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| fulcrum | prop |