GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |