GRE Word List
WIZENED
shriveled; withered; Ex. wizened apple/old lady
The meaning of the word wizened is shriveled; withered; Ex. wizened apple/old lady.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muted | silent; muffled; toned down; Ex. muted traffic noise |
| idle | not working; not employed or busy; lazy; without purpose; useless; lacking substance; baseless; not based on truth; Ex. idle worker; Ex. talk idly; V. |
| carnivorous | meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore |
| mangle | tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies |
| babble | chatter idly or foolishly; make continuous sounds like water running gently over rounded stone; N. |
| counterpart | thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system |
| judicious | sound on judgment; wise |
| piquant | pleasantly tart-tasting; spicy; pleasantly stimulating; Ex. piquant situation when my old enemy asked for my help |
| asymmetric | not identical on both sides of a dividing central line |
| recline | lie down |
