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
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| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| garnish | decorate |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |