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 |
|---|---|
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| welter | writhe |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |