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 |
|---|---|
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| fell | skin |
| blanch | to take the color out of |