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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| stout | strong of character: such as |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| derogatory | expressive of a low opinion : disparaging |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| 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") |