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 |
|---|---|
| biting | having the power to bite |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| expound | to set forth : state |