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 |
|---|---|
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |