GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| conflagration | fire |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| purported | reputed |