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 |
|---|---|
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |