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 |
|---|---|
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |