GRE Word List
INTRACTABLE
not easily governed, managed, or directed
The meaning of the word intractable is not easily governed, managed, or directed.
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chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
sparse | of few and scattered elements |
prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |