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 |
|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |