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 |
|---|---|
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| ebullient | boiling |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |