GRE Word List
TENUOUS
having little substance or strength : flimsy
The meaning of the word tenuous is having little substance or strength : flimsy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| comprehend | to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of |
| slake | subside |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |