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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|---|---|
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| benison | blessing |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
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| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| etymology | the 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 |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |