GRE Word List
TENACITY
the quality or state of being tenacious
The meaning of the word tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious.
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| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
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| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
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| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
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