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 |
|---|---|
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| biennial | occurring every two years |