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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| deify | to make a god of |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| regal | of, relating to, or suitable for a king |