GRE Word List
QUERULOUS
habitually complaining
The meaning of the word querulous is habitually complaining.
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Word | Meaning |
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requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
copious | yielding something abundantly |
atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
contrive | devise |
primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |