GRE Word List

PROFUSION

lavish expenditure : extravagance

The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.

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nominalof, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction
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novicea person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community