GRE Word List
CAPTIOUS
marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections
The meaning of the word captious is marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |