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 |
|---|---|
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| veracious | truthful |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |