GRE Word List
PRAGMATIST
a practical approach to problems and affairs
The meaning of the word pragmatist is a practical approach to problems and affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| minuscule | very small |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |