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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| vanguard | the forefront of an action or movement |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |