GRE Word List
EXPEDIENT
suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance
The meaning of the word expedient is suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| mural | of, relating to, or resembling a wall |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |