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 |
|---|---|
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| convention | agreement |