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 |
|---|---|
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |