GRE Word List
IMPROVIDENT
not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future
The meaning of the word improvident is not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| forebears | ancestor |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| quarry | game |
| victuals | food usable by people |