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 |
|---|---|
| dire | exciting horror |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |