GRE Word List
DEGENERATE
having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state
The meaning of the word degenerate is having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |