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 |
|---|---|
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| demure | reserved |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |