GRE Word List
INTRACTABLE
not easily governed, managed, or directed
The meaning of the word intractable is not easily governed, managed, or directed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| realm | kingdom |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| kismet | fate |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |