GRE Word List
REFRACTORY
resisting control or authority : stubborn
The meaning of the word refractory is resisting control or authority : stubborn.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| championship | designation as champion |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |