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 |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |