GRE Word List
RICKETY
affected with rickets
The meaning of the word rickety is affected with rickets.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |