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 |
|---|---|
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |