GRE Word List
FRACTIOUS
tending to be troublesome : unruly
The meaning of the word fractious is tending to be troublesome : unruly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
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