GRE Word List
IMPORTUNATE
troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand
The meaning of the word importunate is troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand.
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| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
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