GRE Word List
EXPANSIVE
having a capacity or a tendency to expand
The meaning of the word expansive is having a capacity or a tendency to expand.
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fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |