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 |
|---|---|
| tint | a usually slight or pale coloration : hue |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| viable | capable of living |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |