GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |