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 |
|---|---|
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| violate | break |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| rotunda | a round building |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |