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 |
|---|---|
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |