GRE Word List
OPPORTUNIST
one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism
The meaning of the word opportunist is one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism.
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| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |