GRE Word List
IRKSOME
tending to irk : tedious
The meaning of the word irksome is tending to irk : tedious.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
shambles | a meat market |