GRE Word List
PROBLEMATIC
posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide
The meaning of the word problematic is posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |