GRE Word List
PERTINACIOUS
adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design
The meaning of the word pertinacious is adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| affidavit | a sworn statement in writing made especially under oath or on affirmation (see affirmation |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |