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 |
|---|---|
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |