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 |
|---|---|
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| lax | loose |