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 |
|---|---|
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |