GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| heed | to pay attention |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |