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 |
|---|---|
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| blackball | to vote against |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |