GRE Word List
PROFUSION
lavish expenditure : extravagance
The meaning of the word profusion is lavish expenditure : extravagance.
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|---|---|
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |