GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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|---|---|
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| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
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| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
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| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
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