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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| overwhelm | upset |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| fulcrum | prop |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |