GRE Word List
RESTIVE
stubbornly resisting control : balky
The meaning of the word restive is stubbornly resisting control : balky.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| retrench | cut down |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |