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 |
|---|---|
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| dys- | abnormal |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |