GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| noisome | noxious |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
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| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |