Tuesday, January 23, 2018

TENUOUS

WORD: TENUOUS

MEANING:
1.
a. Weak or insubstantial; flimsy: a tenuous argument; a tenuous link between pieces of evidence.
b. Precarious or insecure: tenuous survival.
2. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands.
3. Having a thin consistency: Pluto's tenuous envelope of gas.

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. North Korean nuclear weapons crisis at a 'tenuous stage,' Tillerson says

PRONOUNCE:
ten·u·ous - ટેન્યવસ / ટેન્યૂઅસ

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