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 |
|---|---|
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| crass | gross |