GRE Word List
MAKESHIFT
a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute
The meaning of the word makeshift is a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |