GRE Word List
RICKETY
affected with rickets
The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ploy | escapade |
| dally | to act playfully |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| paramour | lover |