GRE Word List
IMPORTUNE
to press or urge with troublesome persistence
The meaning of the word importune is to press or urge with troublesome persistence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |