GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
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| untenable | not able to be defended |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |