GRE Word List
CONTUMACIOUS
stubbornly disobedient : rebellious
The meaning of the word contumacious is stubbornly disobedient : rebellious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |