GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| schism | division |
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |