GRE Word List
RESTIVE
stubbornly resisting control : balky
The meaning of the word restive is stubbornly resisting control : balky.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
