GRE Word List
WAN
suggestive of poor health : sickly
The meaning of the word wan is suggestive of poor health : sickly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| exegesis | exposition |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| dire | exciting horror |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |