GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |