GRE Word List
REACTIONARY
relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction
The meaning of the word reactionary is relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |