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 |
|---|---|
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |