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 |
|---|---|
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |