GRE Word List
HEADSTRONG
not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions
The meaning of the word headstrong is not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| throes | pang |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| frigid | intensely cold |