GRE Word List
WAN
suggestive of poor health : sickly
The meaning of the word wan is suggestive of poor health : sickly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| overweening | arrogant |