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 |
|---|---|
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| canny | clever |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
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| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |