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 |
|---|---|
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |