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 |
|---|---|
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| calorific | caloric |