GRE Word List
PRAGMATIC
relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic
The meaning of the word pragmatic is relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| modish | fashionable |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |