GRE Word List
TOUCHY
marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation
The meaning of the word touchy is marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| concentric | having a common center |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| beleaguer | besiege |