GRE Word List
RICKETY
affected with rickets
The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repercussion | reflection |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |