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 |
|---|---|
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |