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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sentimentalmarked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
impassea predicament affording no obvious escape
boostto push or shove up from below
disparatemarkedly distinct in quality or character
convergeto tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet
academicof, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning
recalcitrantobstinately defiant of authority or restraint
unprepossessingnot tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing
antlerone of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family
supposititiousfraudulently substituted : spurious