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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| farce | stuff |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |