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 |
|---|---|
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |