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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |