GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
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| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
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| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |