GRE Word List
VAGARY
an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
The meaning of the word vagary is an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |