GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| modish | fashionable |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |