GRE Word List
TENUOUS
having little substance or strength : flimsy
The meaning of the word tenuous is having little substance or strength : flimsy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |