GRE Word List
WASTREL
vagabond
The meaning of the word wastrel is vagabond.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| fabricate | invent |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |