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 |
|---|---|
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |