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 |
|---|---|
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| throes | pang |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |