GRE Word List
RECALCITRANT
obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
The meaning of the word recalcitrant is obstinately defiant of authority or restraint.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| progeny | descendants |
| hallowed | holy |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
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| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |