GRE Word List

GRUELING

trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing

The meaning of the word grueling is trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing.

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willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
laconicusing or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
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incongruitythe quality or state of being incongruous
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