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 |
|---|---|
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| boor | peasant |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |