GRE Word List
OPTIMIST
a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism
The meaning of the word optimist is a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
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| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |