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 |
|---|---|
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| oversee | survey |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |