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 |
|---|---|
| natal | native |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| dart | a light spear |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| fabricate | invent |
| acetic | vinegary |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |