GRE Word List
PROSPERITY
the condition of being successful or thriving
The meaning of the word prosperity is the condition of being successful or thriving.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| plait | pleat |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |