GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |