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.
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disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |