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 |
|---|---|
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |