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 |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| dally | to act playfully |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |