GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |