GRE Word List
QUERULOUS
habitually complaining
The meaning of the word querulous is habitually complaining.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| scourge | whip |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |