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 |
|---|---|
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| malediction | curse |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
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