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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| docile | easily taught |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| finicky | extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| condole | grieve |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |