GRE Word List
ADAMANT
unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding
The meaning of the word adamant is unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| billow | wave |
| portly | dignified |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| submerge | to put under water |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |