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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| enhance | heighten |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |