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 |
|---|---|
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| dys- | abnormal |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |