GRE Word List
LUCRATIVE
producing wealth : profitable
The meaning of the word lucrative is producing wealth : profitable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |