GRE Word List
HAPHAZARD
marked by lack of plan, order, or direction
The meaning of the word haphazard is marked by lack of plan, order, or direction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |