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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| drivel | nonsense |
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| 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 |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| giddy | dizzy |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |