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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |