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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |