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 |
|---|---|
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| exude | to ooze out |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |