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 |
|---|---|
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |