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 |
|---|---|
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| potentate | ruler |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| biting | having the power to bite |