GRE Word List
SQUANDER
to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate
The meaning of the word squander is to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| tempo | the rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (such as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |