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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|---|---|
| ensconce | shelter |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
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| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
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| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
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