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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| deify | to make a god of |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
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