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 |
|---|---|
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| 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") |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| auroral | dawn |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |