GRE Word List
ABSTRUSE
difficult to comprehend : recondite
The meaning of the word abstruse is difficult to comprehend : recondite.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |
| contrive | devise |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |