GRE Word List
EXPEDITIOUS
marked by or acting with prompt efficiency
The meaning of the word expeditious is marked by or acting with prompt efficiency.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| canine | a conical pointed tooth |
| quarry | game |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| 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 |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |