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 |
|---|---|
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |