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 |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |