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 |
|---|---|
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |