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 |
|---|---|
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |