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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| horticultural | the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |