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.

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petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
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shimmerto shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer
chaoticmarked by chaos or being in a state of chaos : completely confused or disordered
mysticmystical
vibrantpulsating with life, vigor, or activity
loungeto act or move idly or lazily : loaf
pediatriciana specialist in pediatrics
emasculateto deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval