GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |