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 |
|---|---|
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| championship | designation as champion |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |