GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
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| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
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| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |