GRE Word List
RESTIVE
stubbornly resisting control : balky
The meaning of the word restive is stubbornly resisting control : balky.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| tome | book |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |