GRE Word List

LAVISH

expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal

The meaning of the word lavish is expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal.

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choicethe act of choosing : selection
omnipresentpresent in all places at all times
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etymologythe 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