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 |
|---|---|
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |