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 |
|---|---|
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| leery | suspicious |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| tome | book |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |