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 |
|---|---|
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |