GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
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candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |