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 |
|---|---|
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| opulence | wealth |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |