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 |
|---|---|
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |