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 |
|---|---|
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| abrasive | causing damage, wear, or removal of surface material by grinding or rubbing : tending to abrade |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |