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 |
|---|---|
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| lampoon | satire |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |