GRE Word List
CANTANKEROUS
difficult or irritating to deal with
The meaning of the word cantankerous is difficult or irritating to deal with.
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|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
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| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
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| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |