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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| overthrow | overturn |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| schism | division |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |