GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| submissive | submitting to others |