GRE Word List

QUERULOUS

habitually complaining

The meaning of the word querulous is habitually complaining.

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tenurethe act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office)
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culpritone accused of or charged with a crime
hyperboleextravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
precipicea very steep or overhanging place
scourgewhip
inconsistencyan instance of being inconsistent
suffocateto stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)
crevicea narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure
cessiona yielding to another : concession