GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| score | twenty |
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| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
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| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| requite | to make return for : repay |