GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| dour | stern |
| overthrow | overturn |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |