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 |
|---|---|
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| pilfer | steal |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |