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 |
|---|---|
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |