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 |
|---|---|
| pedagogue | teacher |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| fleck | streak |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| doddering | feeble |
| heed | to pay attention |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |