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 |
|---|---|
| contrive | devise |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |