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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |