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 |
|---|---|
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| raiment | clothing |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |