GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| retrench | cut down |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |