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 |
|---|---|
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| ebullient | boiling |
| boor | peasant |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |