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 |
|---|---|
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| diva | prima donna |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| chafe | irritate |
| edifice | building |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |