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 |
|---|---|
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| score | twenty |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |