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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |