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 |
|---|---|
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| 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 |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |