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 |
|---|---|
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| guileless | innocent |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |