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 |
|---|---|
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |