GRE Word List
PROLIFIC
producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful
The meaning of the word prolific is producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |