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 |
|---|---|
| rank | relative standing or position |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |