GRE Word List
IRASCIBLE
marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
The meaning of the word irascible is marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| opaque | blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see opacity |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |