GRE Word List
RESTIVE
stubbornly resisting control : balky
The meaning of the word restive is stubbornly resisting control : balky.
Random words
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quotidian | occurring every day |
perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
groom | bridegroom |
terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
civil | of or relating to citizens |
maneuver | a military or naval movement |