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 |
|---|---|
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |