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 |
|---|---|
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| politic | political |