GRE Word List
SPENDTHRIFT
a person who spends improvidently or wastefully
The meaning of the word spendthrift is a person who spends improvidently or wastefully.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |