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 |
|---|---|
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |