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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |