GRE Word List

CONTUMACIOUS

stubbornly disobedient : rebellious

The meaning of the word contumacious is stubbornly disobedient : rebellious.

Random words

WordMeaning
frivolousof little weight or importance
traverseto go or travel across or over
consequentialof the nature of a secondary result : indirect
hamperto restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede
altruisticrelating to or given to altruism:
hubbubnoise
waggishresembling or characteristic of a wag
arbitraryexisting or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will
exegesisexposition
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past