GRE Word List
PRODIGAL
characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish
The meaning of the word prodigal is characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |