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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| finished | entirely done |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |