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 |
|---|---|
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| groom | bridegroom |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |