GRE Word List
DRASTIC
acting rapidly or violently
The meaning of the word drastic is acting rapidly or violently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
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| introspective | characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection |
| hibernal | of, relating to, or occurring in winter |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |