GRE Word List
CONTUMACIOUS
stubbornly disobedient : rebellious
The meaning of the word contumacious is stubbornly disobedient : rebellious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| condole | grieve |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| dyslexia | a variable often familial learning disability involving difficulties in acquiring and processing language that is typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading, spelling, and writing |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| terminology | the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject |