GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |