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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controvertto dispute or oppose by reasoning
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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
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