GRE Word List
BOUNTIFUL
liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors
The meaning of the word bountiful is liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| dys- | abnormal |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |