GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |