GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |