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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |