GRE Word List
IMPROVISE
to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously
The meaning of the word improvise is to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |