GRE Word List
STICKLER
one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something
The meaning of the word stickler is one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| 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") |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |