GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |