GRE Word List
CANTANKEROUS
difficult or irritating to deal with
The meaning of the word cantankerous is difficult or irritating to deal with.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
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| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
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| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |