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 |
|---|---|
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| scintilla | spark |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| retract | to draw back or in |