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 |
|---|---|
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |