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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| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
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| waif | a stray person or animal |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
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| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |