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 |
|---|---|
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| prattle | prate |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| swill | wash |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |