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 |
|---|---|
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| asunder | into parts |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |