GRE Word List
WASTREL
vagabond
The meaning of the word wastrel is vagabond.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| concatenate | linked together |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |