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 |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
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| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |