GRE Word List

ERRANT

behaving wrongly

The meaning of the word errant is behaving wrongly.

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WordMeaning
invincibleincapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued
dwindleto become steadily less : shrink
hazarda source of danger
entreatto plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently
phoenixa legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
impersonalhaving no personal reference or connection
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
falsifyto prove or declare false : disprove
perverseturned away from what is right or good : corrupt
coniferany of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit