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 |
|---|---|
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| brazen | made of brass |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |