GRE Word List
VULNERABLE
capable of being physically or emotionally wounded
The meaning of the word vulnerable is capable of being physically or emotionally wounded.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |