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 |
|---|---|
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |