GRE Word List
CONTUMACIOUS
stubbornly disobedient : rebellious
The meaning of the word contumacious is stubbornly disobedient : rebellious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| juncture | a point of time |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |