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 |
|---|---|
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| verge | brink |