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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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
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| perforate | to make a hole through |