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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| impinge | encroach |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |