GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| actuary | clerk |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |