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 |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |