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 |
|---|---|
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| calorific | caloric |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |