GRE Word List
REFRACTORY
resisting control or authority : stubborn
The meaning of the word refractory is resisting control or authority : stubborn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| opus | work |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| marrow | bone marrow |