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 |
|---|---|
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |