GRE Word List
TENACIOUS
not easily pulled apart : cohesive
The meaning of the word tenacious is not easily pulled apart : cohesive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| 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") |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |