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 |
|---|---|
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |