GRE Word List
PROFLIGATE
wildly extravagant
The meaning of the word profligate is wildly extravagant.
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|---|---|
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
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| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
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| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| hap | happening |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |