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 |
|---|---|
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| score | twenty |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |