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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| 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 |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |