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 |
|---|---|
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| schism | division |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |