GRE Word List

PROFLIGATE

wildly extravagant

The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.

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WordMeaning
supplecompliant often to the point of obsequiousness
edifyto instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift
exculpateto clear from alleged fault or guilt
adjunctsomething joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
frustrateto balk or defeat in an endeavor
pontificalepiscopal attire
servitudea condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life
soliloquythe act of talking to oneself
ultimatuma final proposition, condition, or demand
gyroscopea 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