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 |
|---|---|
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |